Photo journal: Harvest in Caracas

Since coming to power in 1999, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has implemented a range of social and economic programmes. One of them aims to change the way city dwellers think about food through the creation of organic urban gardens and to promote self-sufficiency.

The Organoponico Bolivar I garden occupies 1.2 acres in the centre of Caracas and is the first of its kind in the capital.